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Officials Jailed for Roughhouse soccer v President
President Pierre Nkurunziza: Officials in jail after Burundi leader is 'roughed up' in game
http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/43265299
A judicial source told AFP the officials were arrested on charges of "conspiracy against the president" (pictured right)
Two Burundi officials have been imprisoned after the African country's president was allegedly "roughed up" in a football match they organised.
President Pierre Nkurunziza is a 'born-again' evangelical Christian who spends much of his time travelling Burundi with his own team, Haleluya FC. He travels with his own choir, "Komeza gusenga", which means "pray non-stop" in the local Kirundi language.
On 3 February, his team faced a side from the northern town of Kiremba.
Normally, the opposition is well aware they are playing against the country's president, and it has been said they go easy in the games, even perhaps allowing Nkurunziza to score.
President pictured on the right
But as the Kiremba team contained Congolese refugees who did not know they were playing against Burundi's president, they "attacked each time he had the ball and made him fall several times", a witness told AFP.
Kiremba's administrator Cyriaque Nkezabahizi and his assistant, Michel Mutama, were imprisoned on Thursday, the news agency reports.
AFP cited a judicial source as saying they had been arrested on charges of "conspiracy against the president".
President Nkurunziza and his government were in 2017 implicated in a United Nations report that said there was strong evidence crimes against humanity had been committed in the country.
The report said government forces - but also opposition groups - had committed killings, torture and rape after violence erupted in 2015.
The turmoil was sparked after President Nkurunziza decided to run for a third term.
He was later re-elected in a poll that was boycotted by the opposition.
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A Person convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.
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Same dynamic in the military when NCOs have to play sports with officers.
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...3rd world military, emphasis.truetalk wrote:Same dynamic in the military when NCOs have to play sports with officers.
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The difficulties of statistical thinking describes a puzzling limitation of our mind: our excessive confidence in what we believe we know, and our apparent inability to acknowledge the full extent of our ignorance and the uncertainty of the world we live in. We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events -- Daniel Kahneman (2011), Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
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Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
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